Florida's shame - not the 2000 election

EDIT: I am still getting the hang of this self-indulgent, self-important, utterly ridiculous business called blogging. My ineptitude includes, but is not limited to, copyright issues. Thus, I have had to delete The Economist article in the following post. However, I recommend you all go out and get a subscription today so that you can check the archives and understand my shame for my home state. I guarantee you won't be disappointed (in The Economist, that is; you will be disappointed in Florida).

This mostly goes out to my Floridian friends and family, though the rest of you may be interested in yet another deplorable moral and political failure in the Sunshine State. For the last 6 years people have tended to groan when I mention being from Florida, followed by some crack about the 2000 elections. This only goes to show their pathetic knowledge; after all, there is so much more to Florida’s ineptitude than this.

-W.

Trouble in Tallahassee

Jul 6th 2006 | TAMPA
From The Economist print edition